Matthew Coates
@coatesmatthew.bsky.social
Visiting Professor in Philosophy (PPEL), Bowling Green State University, Ohio | Birdwatcher | Burnley supporter, Up the Clarets!
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Matthew Coates
@coatesmatthew.bsky.social
· Nov 18
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Does it Harm Science to Suppress Dissenting Evidence?
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If anyone is interested in reading the work I presented at both PPE and #PSA24 conferences they can be found below. Firstly, my work on modeling Hiding Dissent that I presented at the PPE society has now just been published online in Philosophy of Science!
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University Challenge is a lot like sex. It gets more frantic towards the end and then there's a gong and Amol Rajan tells you the scores.
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
University Challenge is a lot like sex. It gets more frantic towards the end and then there's a gong and Amol Rajan tells you the scores.
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are writers for the spectator okay?
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
are writers for the spectator okay?
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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Did Geoffrey of Monmouth write this script?
Thanks to the BBC we've just learnt that the effigies of Gog and Magog, appearing in the Lady Mayors Show are:
"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐
Thank you
"representations of 2 giants captured by the Roman general Brutus, first governor of Londinium, back in the day" 🧐
Thank you
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Did Geoffrey of Monmouth write this script?
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
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Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.
One the one hand the Dodgers won the World Series, on the other hand the Dodgers got swept by the Angels this year, and we’re absolute shit, so who are the real winners?
November 2, 2025 at 5:47 AM
One the one hand the Dodgers won the World Series, on the other hand the Dodgers got swept by the Angels this year, and we’re absolute shit, so who are the real winners?
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Admiral William Halsey, November 1942, Guadalcanal:
Yamamoto must have nerves of steel
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Admiral William Halsey, November 1942, Guadalcanal:
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All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
All in favour of shared spaces that get people out and about and it you’re going to burn money on gambling then yeah, better to do so with a friendly person on hand. But still some incredible “men’s mental health” lobbying against a gambling tax in the Sunday Times. www.thetimes.com/article/f115...
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Would it not therefore be simpler/
For 30 Conservative MPs to write letters of no confidence in the people/
and elect another?
For 30 Conservative MPs to write letters of no confidence in the people/
and elect another?
In the 35 years Daniel Hannan has been a member of the Conservative Party, they have been in government as the result of that problem electorate a total of 21 years.
A Brexiter writes...
November 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Would it not therefore be simpler/
For 30 Conservative MPs to write letters of no confidence in the people/
and elect another?
For 30 Conservative MPs to write letters of no confidence in the people/
and elect another?
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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
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They're calling him the most French man in history
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
They're calling him the most French man in history
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Stop acting like you are an election strategist or a media analyst and just express your policy desires!
October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Stop acting like you are an election strategist or a media analyst and just express your policy desires!
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Interview Dan Brown about the Louvre break-in.
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Interview Dan Brown about the Louvre break-in.
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The problem IMO is the Blue Labour theory of growth, such as it is, is kicking hippies fuels the economy.
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The problem IMO is the Blue Labour theory of growth, such as it is, is kicking hippies fuels the economy.
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I mean to be fair to most commentators, the African Grey parrot is really smart.
Honestly ”getting re-elected for a second term” is not that deep. Most incumbent British governments manage it! This one still might, despite everything! A parrot saying “the government will be re-elected” is outperforming most commentators over the course of British history for this reason.
I fully accept that things are Not Good at the moment for the Labour Party, and I personally find some of the more Blue Labour stuff a bit grim, but I'd like to hear someone explain what the strategy should be that results in the government retaining a majority.
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I mean to be fair to most commentators, the African Grey parrot is really smart.
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Before castigating a book for not using a term, you should check to see if the book uses a term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Before castigating a book for not using a term, you should check to see if the book uses a term.
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recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
October 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
The original first line of the Communist Manifesto was far more metal
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The original first line of the Communist Manifesto was far more metal
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Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Found out about this one from the Labour press release condemning it, and it was a real trip to learn that this wasn’t “a Labour staffer with a tape recorder at a private event” story but a “she just said it on national TV” story.
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The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'
Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'
www.mirror.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...